Living the Lotus Life

Memoirs of a child at the age of four to an adult of 76 years of age. A span of 72
years life experience involving in a slum area, near destitude, with single parent of
unmatched motherly love that cared for him. He projects his life from childhood in the
Hindu faith of his mother, the brutality of his separated father and the insurmountable
injustice to "Non-White" peoples of Apartheid South Africa. He shares his experience
in the daily life he faced in Apartheid South Africa, gives a view of the attitudes of
the "Whites" and the inequality he faced. He explains how further education beyond
high school was attained by special consent to study in a White only university where
he had to pay the same fees as the White students but was denied all the sporting
social and cultural facilities and activities. Despite his non violent political activities
on the university campus, consent to study further was terminated by the ministry
of education and denied access to the university. He was placed under house arrest
and subsequently arrested under the terrorism act and imprisoned, tortured and
virtually disappeared to the knowledge of his family and friends. He endured prison
life through his meditation techniques and raised his threshold for pain he escaped
from the country and made a new life as a truly free human being in the UK. He
travelled the world acquiring a better understand of indigenous people in the country
he visted and could relate to their difficulties.